#los sures

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los sures (1984) dir. diego echeverria

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Los Sures // New York // Williamsburg This rediscovered documentary captures the wild energy of a long lost 80s Brooklyn neighborhood.

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Los Sures. Williamsburg, BK 1984.

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Los Sures (Diego Echeverria, 1984)

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“This revival and response to Los Sures has meant very much to me personally. It is not often that a documentary film gets a second life after so many years. This is permitting the film to be part of a deeper reflection on the history of Puerto Ricans and other Latino immigrant groups in the U.S. and to validate with a new, broader public the communities they have built, their experiences, difficulties and achievements. In all these ways, it is demonstrating another critical aspect of the power of documentary film.”

Diego Echeverria, the director of the essential 1984 portrait of Williamsburg, introduces his film Los Sures at Notebook.

MUBI is exclusively showing Los Sures in a new restoration September 3 - October 2, 2016.

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“In the late 70s and early 80s, Los Sures was one of the poorest neighbourhoods in New York City. In fact, it had been called the worst ghetto in America. Diego Echeverria’s film skillfully represents the challenges of it's time: drugs, gang violence, crime, abandoned real estate, racial tension, single-parent homes, and inadequate local resources. The complex portrait also celebrates the vitality of this largely Puerto Rican and Dominican community, showing the strength of their culture, their creativity, and their determination to overcome a desperate situation. Beautifully restored just in time for the 30th anniversary of the premiere at the New York Film Festival, this documentary is a priceless piece of New York City history.”

The restoration of the original documentary has also informed an interactive project that draws upon the accounts of residents recounting their experiences from the neighbourhood. 

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“There’s a film from 1984, and there’s all this new work that we’ve done with to bring it out. A lot of that has been creating relationships and working with the people who are here,” says Allen. “For the organization, the point is to be connected and make the current point of the city as connected as it was in the film.”

UnionDocs has become the distributor of a new digital print of Los Sures, which will make its official premiere this weekend at the new Metrograph cinema on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. We spoke to Allen about how the project came to be and the evolution of Williamsburg. Read the full interview here. http://frank151.com/los-sures-shows-williamsburg-really/